The end of the world starts with failing the exam

"You said you would help me advance to a higher rank..." Qiao Youning gently rubbed her sore thighs, her eyes filled with longing, "This way I won't be thrown away by him...when I face the Creator in the future. ...I can also help him...I won't always stay behind and be held back by his protection..."

"You are not considered a laggard." Mother Buddha said helplessly, "According to the memories you synchronized with me, in your world, the only person who can surpass you in single strength is that bastard Chen Jing..."

"Can you stop scolding him?" Qiao Youning couldn't help but say, even if she was facing the source of her own sequence, she was not afraid at all, "He is actually very good..."

"What's wrong with scolding him?" Buddha Mother clicked her tongue and said with disdain, "Does this make you feel bad?"

"Yes." Qiao Youning nodded silently.

"Then why don't you feel bad when you play with him?" Mother Buddha said with a bad smile, "To be honest, You Ning, your performance really impresses me!"

"..."

……

After returning to the guest room of the temple, Chen Jing wanted to lie down on the bed for a while, but the advent of the "Saha Realm" made everything "deteriorated". Looking at the bed of bloody pork belly, Chen Jing really didn't have the courage to lie down on it.

It's not that I'm afraid.

Just plain disgust.

"My dear grandson, this place looks too boring. How about we go back to the Western Continent..." Although Chen Boxu does not have Chen Jing's mysophobia, he is still a very particular person, and he is not interested in this kind of flesh and blood. The aesthetically pleasing decorating style is a bit off-putting.

"We will go back after Ega gives us a confirmation and confirms the alliance." Chen Jing sat cross-legged on the ground and kept rubbing the muscles of his lower back with his hands. "Before I leave, I have to arrange a ritual here. Although With my current strength, it is difficult to arrange it in place, but with the help of Buddha Mother, it should be no problem."

"You want to arrange rituals in Jizhoudu?" Chen Bofu became interested when he heard this and asked curiously, "Are you planning to leave a back-up here? If anything happens in the temple, you can kill them all directly." The kind that blows up to the sky?”

Hearing this, Chen Jing couldn't help but roll his eyes at Chen Bofu, thinking that the old man's idea was too violent...well, it wasn't actually violent. After all, he had had this idea before, but when he was "discussing Taoism" with the Buddha, "After that, he felt that the possibility of trouble in the temple was very low.

Moreover, with the living ancient goddess like Buddha Mother here, anyone can tell at a glance what she is really going to do.

"I'm going to arrange a two-way space jump ritual here."

Chen Jing raised his hand and moved it on the bloody floor, roughly describing the function of this ritual to the old man.

"The ritual is divided into two ports."

"One is in Jiju Capital, and the other is in the Western Continent."

Chapter 564: Invitation from Luoyan City (Part 2)

According to Chen Jing's simple description, the old man roughly knew what kind of ritual he wanted to arrange... Generally speaking, it was a ritual that could allow a large number of creatures to jump to fixed-point spaces.

But it’s not that simple, because you also need to provide a “verification code” when making a space jump…

"My command is the key to running this ritual." Chen Jing said calmly, "If I don't allow the ritual to start, then the creatures at the two coordinate points will not be able to use the ritual to make space jumps."

"Well, it's safe this way." Chen Bofu nodded, "If someone wants to use this to raid the Western Continent, it won't be that easy."

In fact, Chen Boxu and Chen Jing were worried about the same situation.

They are not afraid that someone in the temple may have evil intentions.

What they were afraid of was that after the temple and Shen Kong announced their alliance, Xuan Kong and Yong Ye would give priority to attacking Ji Zhou Capital, because compared to the Western Continent where the ancient gods were in charge, Ji Zhou Capital was weaker than Chen in terms of geographical location and overall strength. View of the rear area where they are located...

The Buddha Mother is awake.

But this does not mean that Buddha Mother can defeat the cooperation between Xuan Kong and Yong Ye.

"She gives me the feeling that she is weaker than Xizi. She must have just broken through the seal and needs a certain amount of time to regain her strength. If someone comes from Xuankong Yongye at this stage and brings Turing's body over, Buddha Mother may not be able to stop it. You can live in it..."

If there is a surprise attack in Jidu one day, and Chen Jing and the others happen to be unable to rescue them in time, then Chen Jing’s ritual of staying here is definitely a fatal backdoor... There is no strategic buffer zone to speak of, just let the coalition forces kill them. Entering the belly of the Western Continent is not a good thing.

but……

This doesn’t seem to work either…

Chen Jing suddenly remembered that the examination system was under maintenance some time ago, which resulted in the inability to use the chat interface to contact all examinations...

If that situation happens again, and Jijudu happens to be attacked, wouldn't it be useless for me to keep the password myself?

Think about it.

Chen Jing felt that it was safer to leave a share for Qiao Youning, after all, she was one of his own.

"My dear grandson, it was inconvenient to talk because there were outsiders here before. Please tell me now!" Chen Bofu sat cross-legged next to Chen Jing with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. "You said that Mother Buddha gave it to you. What happened to chance?”

Hearing the old man's question, Chen Jing didn't hide it anymore.

"I have received the divine inspiration to be promoted to Sequence 6."

"Really?!" Chen Boxu was stunned. He felt that the surprise came too suddenly. After all, the good boy was promoted to Sequence 5 in the arsenal not long ago. Will he be promoted to Sequence 6 in the blink of an eye? !

But the old man was not happy for a while.

After listening to Chen Jing's explanation of the two necessary conditions for promotion to Sequence 6, the expression on his face suddenly dropped, and his eyes were indescribably solemn.

"The power of life from ancient sources... This is the opportunity given to you by Mother Buddha... It is also this thing that inspires divine enlightenment..."

Chen Bofu twisted the cigarette in his hand and murmured with a frown.

"It's hard to find this thing, but at least you've got it, and all you have to do is go to that banquet..."

"Actually, I also think this promotion condition is weird." Chen Jing was puzzled because on the way back to the guest room, he was carefully searching and reading the memory passed down to him by King Huang... But the memory However, the keyword "Luoyan City" does not exist in it.

of course.

It is impossible for Chen Jing to forget the power he had from the beginning of the sequence when he first awakened as an old descendant.

He can control relics from three sources without using them.

One is from the [Huang Wang] path.

The second is from the [Kakosa] path.

These two paths are not unfamiliar to Chen Jing. After all, they are both related to deep space and are considered "keywords" that often appear in life. But the third path that can avoid the cost of use... also makes Chen Jing always Elusive.

Luoyan City.

In King Huang's memory, this keyword does not exist, and in daily life, Chen Jing has never been exposed to relevant information... In other words, Chen Jing cannot understand why he uses the relics in this way without any cost. .

Is it related to deep space?

What does it represent in the deep space series...

"My dear grandson, it doesn't sound like a good thing for you to participate in the banquet of the ancient gods after you have been absent for hundreds of millions of years." Chen Bofu finally couldn't resist his craving for cigarettes, walked aside, opened the window, lit up a cigarette, and started smoking. He stood up and said, "I also asked you to replace King Huang. We can't let King Huang break his trust..."

As he said this, Chen Bofu suddenly laughed.

"If I invite someone to dinner and that bastard is absent, causing me to wait for hundreds of millions of years in vain, I will have to skin him!"

"..."

"As for that thing at the end of the 'Deep Sea Singularity', in the lost city of Luoyan, an old friend is waiting for you to fall asleep in the eternal mansion... Why do I feel like this mission is for you to die?"

"...Grandpa, can you stop scaring me?"

"Even if we don't consider who invited you to the banquet, the place where the banquet is held is not right. What kind of deep sea singularity is it and what is Conch City? To be honest, if that place is in the sea, it will be troublesome. !”

When Chen Bofu said this, his expression became more solemn.

"The sea...isn't there just the damn old sea...that ghost place is no joke...it is boundless around the continent...the total area is much larger than the continent we are on... "

"Is that place dangerous?" Chen Jing searched carefully in his mind, but didn't get much useful information.

In the old days, there was nothing special about the ocean surrounding the continent. As for modern times... there are not many records about the old sea. Chen Jing only knew that it was a dangerous place where many people lived. Contaminated areas.

"Is it dangerous?" Chen Bofu repeated Chen Jing's question. He felt that this boy was too simple. No one who knew a little about the secrets of the Old Sea would ask such a question. "Not even the three major sects dared to get involved in it. , do you think it’s dangerous there?”

Chen Bofu's expression became more solemn, and his smoking speed also increased significantly.

"The three major sects have carried out hundreds of operations against the Old Sea. Most of the operations were to seize the ownerless islands in the ocean and kill all the fishy-smelling natives. All the towns that were built were captured by his own hands...but without exception they all failed."

At this time, Chen Jing also thought about it. He vaguely remembered that some candidates seemed to be "born" in the Sea of ​​the Past.

However, there is not much information they can provide. They all seem to live in villages or towns. They have never heard of any major forces that can resist the three major sects. There is only a very small and extremely secretive indigenous religion among the candidates. Word of mouth...

"There is a clan there that has been passed down from generation to generation. They are the natives of the Sea of ​​the Old. Like the believers of the major sects, the creatures in the clan have devout and firm beliefs."

As Chen Boxu spoke, he traced his fingers on the ground, drawing an octopus-like pattern on the bloody floor.

"The object of their faith is also an ancient god from the past."

Chen Jing looked down at the somewhat funny and "childlike" octopus head, and suddenly recalled the ancient beliefs of the indigenous people that the candidates had said...

"This is... Dagon?"

Chapter 565: The Conch and the Horn (Part 1)

Dagon.

A local belief originating from the Old Sea.

It is said that it is also one of the ancient gods that has survived from the old times to this day. It has no human form but looks like a big octopus. It lives in the dark sea of ​​the old all year round. It hardly likes to show its saints in front of people. It is not seen by outsiders. There are only a handful of times in this world.

So many people think that Dagon is fake, a false god created by the natives who smell of fish all over their bodies, in order to scare the outsiders from the mainland, but in fact... Dagon does exist. .

Chen Bofu was lucky enough to witness its appearance.

without any exaggeration.

That experience frightened Chen Boxu.

Compared to when he ventured to the Western Continent and was almost killed by the ancient god Xi, Dagon of the Sea of ​​Old Days was obviously much more terrifying...

"I don't know how much you know about the ocean, but I'm sure that no matter how much you know, it won't be enough."

When Chen Boxu and Chen Jing told these past events, they inevitably recalled that experience, with a clear look of fear on their faces.

"Although the universe is far wider than the ocean, it is ultimately visible and intangible, but the ocean is not. When you are drifting on the sea in a boat, the farther you are from the land, the more frightening you feel. It seems that everything in the world is covered by those dark things. The sea swallowed up..."

"Do you still have a phobia of the deep sea?" Chen Jing asked dubiously, as if it was difficult to connect what Chen Boxu said with himself.

"WTF?"

Chen Bofu seemed to have never heard of this term, frowning and taking a deep breath of cigarette.

"You will know once you go there. The water there is black. The shoals on the shore suddenly become very deep after a few dozen meters, like there are cliffs on the seabed. The [Turing Research Association] originally threw them into it. After passing the detector, I wanted to survey the Great Trench that the natives talked about, but in the end nothing was detected and the detector disappeared... Don't interrupt me, kid!"

"Don't interrupt, don't interrupt, just keep talking!"

Seeing Chen Jing obediently shut his mouth and remained silent, Chen Bofu picked up the cigarette and took a slow puff before continuing to talk.

"When we went to explore the Sea of ​​the Old Ones, there were not many people in the team. Apart from the two natives who led the way, there were only me, Randolph, and that old bastard named Armitage... "

"The natives who lead the way?" Chen Jing was stunned.

"Nonsense, if we don't find someone to guide us, we won't get lost at sea!" Chen Boxu glanced at Chen Jing, feeling that he was making a fuss.

"Grandpa, can't you fly?" Chen Jing asked cautiously, "No matter how big the Sea of ​​​​Old is, it shouldn't be a problem for you to spend some time and fly back and forth..."

"Can't fly."

"?"

"You can't fly in that place."

Seeing Chen Jing's puzzled face, Chen Boxu had no choice but to explain patiently.

"I told you before that the three major sects cannot set foot in the Sea of ​​the Old... The main reason for this is that something is wrong with that sea."

Chen Bofu shook the ashes from his cigarette and continued with a solemn expression.

"As the most polluted area left over from the old days, that sea area has the property of devouring energy. Any old descendants, polluted species, or ancient species that set foot in it will have their energy drained away from their bodies."

"Fight, fly."

"Swimming in the sea, or using power."

"The more energy you need to use, the faster your own energy will be extracted, so you can't fly in that place. Even if you want to fly, you can only fly short distances. After a long time, even I can't stand it... …”

According to Chen Bofu, it is precisely because of this characteristic that the Old Sea is less dangerous than the Western Continent, but it is truly disgusting.

There is the ancient god Xi who likes silence in the Western Continent, and whoever makes a sound will die.

And the Sea of ​​the Old... Although there is an ancient god named Dagon living there, in general that ancient god has a good temper and basically does not show up, and he does not necessarily show up to kill people. .

The danger in that sea area will only come from two aspects.

Either they are polluted species that always live in the sea. They have long been accustomed to this harsh environment, so compared to outsiders like Chen Bofu, they are more resistant to the energy extracted by the ocean. To put it simply, they are more durable.